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WEATHER REPORT.
On the 27th st 11.15 am.A typhoon is situated at about 250 miles to the N.E. of Formoss, moving to the north-west Pressure. has decreased considerably over Formoss and slightly over the China Coast and the Philippines; it remains highest in the Pocile to the east of Jagun and lon over Indo-China,
Hongkong malefall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.03 inches.
DIFTRIOS.
ΒΟΒΠΟΛΗΣ. 18. & B.W. winds, Hongkong & Neighbourhood light to moder
Lateine generally, (N.W. to S.W. Formoss Chanmai
***1 winds, fresh. South coast of China between J'The same as
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WARNEWS.
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF AIR RAIDS:
The following war news, officially eiron- lated through German wireles atlations, has been received by the Fireless Presa:
BERLIN, June 21st.
to
OPENING SOUTH
CHINA
BRITISH PRIVY COUNCILLORS OF ALIEN BIRTH.
RE SIR EDGAR SPEYER AND SIR ERNEST CASSEL.
similar application
COAL FIELDS.. There is a very fair prospect for the development of some of the coal fields of South China, especially within Hong- Fong's trade territory, on a modern basis. At several localities along the West and
In the High Court of Justice on the 3rd North Rivers near Canton coal fields have been worked in native fashion for some ult. before the Lord Chief Justice and sandlier time, and the output has come to atcunt adge, Mr. Arthur Powell, C., applied An official statement toferring to the at-
A mining perle on behalf of Sir Georga. Makgill, a considerable volume. tack by airmen on Karlsruhe explains how expert, roports the US Consul-General baronet, as rolator for an order nis directed to Sir Edgar Speyer calling upon hira, to The forecast for the 24 hour ending at noon heretofore Gorman airmen and airships bons-George E. Anderson, of Hongkong show cause why an information in the nature to-day la na follows
barded places of military importance onlying on March 27th, has had occasion to of a quo cervanto should not issue directing while exceptions were always explicitly men look into one of these fields in the past him to show by what authority he is of tioned as retaliations to similar enemy few wocks, with a view de development claims to be, a member of his Majesty's Privy measures,
along modern lince, and gives some. facts Council of interest. The property examined is Mr. Powell made a situated on the North River, about 180 with regard to Sir Ernest Cassel.
The ground of his application, Mr. Powell miles from Canton, the actual ming being located about a mile from the river bank said, was the same in both cases-that both on the right bank. The survey for the Sir Edgar Speyer and Sir Ernest Casual we Canton Hankow railway line crosses the born out of the United Kingdon and the properly. The property occupies broke Dominions thereto belonging, and were t ground, ambracing two lines of hills of born of English parents -Sir Edgar Spoyer considerable height. The dative with offices.
in Frankfurt, in New York, and ings are located from 800 to 1,009 He was born in New York; not of the side of one of these ranges, and the seam has been followed down for about agents, in soptomber, 1889, and was the sola of Gustav Speyer, of Frankfurt. He had lived. 400 ft. The seom ranges about 9 ft. in principally in England, but until 1892 as
alien. He was naturalized in that year under the Naturalization Act, 1870. In 1906 ho was made a baronet and in November, 1908, how was sworn a member of the Privy Council and took his seat at the Board. His appointment was announced in the London Gazette on November 23. He still pretended-using the of the Privy Council, but (connsel submitted it was not in fact and
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PARIS, June 21st, The Matin publishes a complete list of the raids made by German aeroplanes and Zeppelins on open towns and the loss of life thus caused among civilians. This shows that open towns in France and England have been bombarded 83 times by German aeroplanes and 21 tirues by Zeppelins.
SHANGHAL AND THE WAR.
PERSONAL ITEMS OF LOCAL, INTEREST.
thickness.
TONS.
Three sons of Mr. Osborne Middleton, for many years manager of the China Merchants Wharves, Shanghai, sro now in the Army. Mr. Ernest Middleton is a Second-Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery: Mr. Hugh Middleton is Second-Lieutenant in the Army Service tone worked. On this property there are word in no offensive sense to be a member
Corps and Mr. John Middlewon is a private in the 20th Light Infantry, now in training at Brisbane. All throe brothers were born in Shanghai.
WASTÉFUL NATIVE METHOD.--MILLIONS OF
The native method of working is extremely wasteful, and also extremely dangerous, even where the seamh is so plainly exposed as it is in the case of the three seams, one about 9 ft. in thickness, the second about 2 ft. in thickness, and the third about 10 ft. in thickness. While owing to the broken nature of the country
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Sir Ernest Cassel was born at Cologne in 1862, and was the son of Jacph Cassel of that
News has been received at Shang-ibis impossible to see whether or not there city. He was created a knight in 1889 and
1
August, 1802.
THE EFFECT OF THE STATUTES, The ralator was not moving on account of auneus against anyone in particular, but in view of the statutes he submitted that neither of these persons was a member of the Privy Council. The statutes relating to the matter began with 12 and 13 W3, III, e, 4, section 32 by 1, Geo. I, Stat. 2, 47 and 8 Vie, c. 66, section 2; the Naturalization Act of 1970, 33- Vio, c. 14; and by the British Nationality Act of last year (4 and 6, Gleo. V.,
in the seams, the general Mr. F. S. A. Bourne, C.M.G., is in the tions are that there are none.
The region is essentially coal country; trenches at the front. Ho is attached the predominating rock is lime stone to the Border Regimont, of which he is intermixed with layers of sandstone and now “bombing officer." He has been slates. Millions of tone of coal are actual. touched by a shell splinter, but escaped in sight. The Government analyst in injury, Mr. Kenneth Bourne was for a
Hongkong reports on the analysis of a brief period & cadet in the Shanghai sample of this coal that 100 parts contain Municipal Police Force, and left Shang-0.80 per cent of moisture 17.60-per-ce the Act of Settlement; and that was followed hai with one of the early British Volun of ash, 20.70 per cent. of volatile com teer Contingents. Mr. F. 8. A, Bourne's bustible matter, and 60.90 per cent of che eldest son is now serving in India.
Mr. David Palmer, writing to a friend fixed carbon. The percentage of sulphur in Shanghai, saya that he is now in is placed at 1.2 per vent, and the calorific value is 12.830 British thermal units. The Franco ring at the back of the firing line as is greyish white in colour. The coke where they can hear the boom of the big of hard behaviour when barned, and guns night and day. He is attached to burns with a fairly long flame. the 10th Batt. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and expects to go into the treiches at any hour. He continues; You will be surprised to hear who is our Brigadier-General, Colonel Bruce, late of the Shanghai polios. He was present when I was given the Stanhope medal. He is B.G. of the 27th division,
I hope to get a chance of seeing him."
GERMAN INTRIGUE IN ATHENS
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WHOLESALE BRIBERY.
A well-informed Greek correspondent writes to the London Daily Telegraph as
follows:-
NEW RAILWAY WILL FURNISH TRANSPORTA
-TION ——MACHINERY NEKDED.........
Mr. Powell then referred to the various sections and discussed their effect, and said that so far as he knew no persons who were not natural-born Englishmen had been. members of the Privy Council until quite recent years.
لاة العالة على تعليم والي
The Lord Chief Justice said that without expressing any opinion on the merits of the application he would like authority for maying that the process of quo warranto was the way to test the matter..
The matter of transportation has been one of the chief factors in opening such mines. The North River, where these coal seams are found, is too shallow for success ful water transportation, and there is no econotaical means of transport at this Mr. Powell said that he did not know of time. It is anticipated, however, that the matter had never arisen before, but he relied any direct authority, for he believe the Ginton-Hankow railway line will be on Darley v. Reg. (12 C and F., 620). completed to this district in about two
The Ford Chief Justice said that without years at the present rate of progress that expressing any opinion upon the effect of the ls, it can be completed to that point in statutes or upon the correctness of the mode that time out of the earnings of the per- of proceeding, enough had been said to justify tions of the road already completed and the granting of a rule to have the matter in operation. The completion of this line argued out. Notice must be given to each of will not only immediately open up this the respondents, to the Home Secretary to coal field, but it will also make other fields the Attorney-General, atid to the Uluk to available for the Hongkong coal market the Privy Council. and for export.
The immediate need of these fields at present is modern machinery and capital
There has been a lavish expenditure of German gold in Athens on a scale which can only be paralleled in recent revelations of Teutonis intrigue in Rome. The object has been to obtain the exclu- sion of M. Venizelos from power..
"In order to effect their object those for development. The capital needed for who are a party to the intrigue have not the development of the property examined hesitated to represent that M. Venizelos is placed at about $150.000 gold, and is the enemy of the dynasty. In is sug-apparently this may be taken as repre gested that the Cretan statesman is in sentative of various other fields. On the reality anxious to establish a republic basis of this investment an output of 500 and overthrow once and for all the Royal tons of coal per day is indicated. House,
ENEMY, FINANCE,
SOLVENCY DEPENDENT ON VICTORY.
"Happily enough, the result of the recent elections has proved that the Greek nation is sound at heart, but be- cause they have been baulked at the polls the German agents have not in any. tense desisted from their project. There
A well-informed neutral banker who is a rumour, to which I hesitate to give credence, but which, nevertheless, reaches returned recently from Vienna gives the my on very good authority, that certain following account of the financial posi officers who have Teutonic leanings are tion of Austria-Hungary and of Ger preparing to kidnap M. Venizelos on the many:
ground of his alleged republican leanings. "Money is plentiful in Austria-that is "I need scarcely add that accusations to say, paper money and silver and nickel against M. Venimlos' loyalty ante abecoins More than £300,000,000 of paper lutely absurb, in view of the fact that has been issued in the Dual Monarchy. gold it is due more to him than to any other since the beginning of the war. The
covering for the paper circulation has Living man that the Royale horied decreased during the same period from
authority
At
GERMAN SUBMARINE POLICY.
The Times of June 22nd says:--
The new Prost campaign eins et showing.
in the most sensational way possible that thore cau be no moderation of German submarine policy, because British ships employ every sort of cunning in attacking Germain submarines. Tho Berlin Lokalanzeiger itself was made to publish. on Friday a violent article called King George and the American Now" It three revived an announcement, now months old, of the honours conferred upon Captain Bell, of the Thordis, for the sinking of a German submaline, Sused the King personally for confer
such honours, and contained rang passages like the following
of
There cannot be the least doubt that, by this official notion of the King, England has lost any claim to further observance by our submarings of the ordinary 'rules and warfaro. It would be criminal weakness, of a kind which would rightly arouse England's contempt, if we were to require our brave submasino men
any longer to submit to the necessite of hailing and stopping English merchant ships before sinking hen
that the Greek people, who understand nearly £70,000,000 to about £30,000,000; the responsibility of freedom and inde- But gold is only needed for purchases of pendence, will know how to deal with food and war material from abroad, and this shameless endeavour to overpower these are restricted to a minimum. the exercise of their free volition by one moment, when the Russians were force."
nearly through the Carpathian Passes, and people in Budapest were looking for
wellings as far south as Agram, the The Tirpite Press Bureau also supplies capital of Croatia, Austrian paper was the Press afresh with many genial argu- at a discount of more than 40 per centments about the murderous character of
WAR BREVITIES.
It is reported from Florence that ten lads have run away from a Florence or- phanage to go to the front."
י
Among prisoners recently taken by the Italians are some young Austrian officers attached to the headquarters of the Arch duke Eugene.
in Rumania, Switserland, and other British policy and with much glorifica countries; but, with the improvement of tion of the sinking of the Ineitamente the military situation, the discount fell chief trump, however, is the revival of the and stands now at about 20 per cent. As memory of the late Captain Weddigen far as I and aware, the Austro-Hungarian and the official adoption of the old story State Bank has not lent gold to the Cer-that his ship the US was sunk by British man Imperial Bank. On the contrary, cunning wwing to his too strict siberion the German Imperial Bank lent--some rules. As was officially announbed
was sunk by one of his
They say that the Arch eight million pounds in gold to Austria yesterday, the Us On Friday the whole Hungary before the Italian declaration Majesty's ships. of war dos tors It was spent in German Preus published the following buying foodstuffs from Italy.
official Cormais.
duke has nasured his officers that they will spend Christmas in Venice and Milan,"
The Pope has two nephews serving a the front, one as a captain and the other as e lieutenant of cavalry. One of his nephews by marriage, Captain the Count Venier, of the Artillery, is also at present with the colours, ...
With regard to the manner of the destruction of Ugg it has now, as we hear from an authoritative quarter, boen learnt from a special source that this boat was sunk by an English tank steamer This confirma, thê -rumburs which were in circula- tion all along that the bost fell a sacrifice to treacherous British cunning than
If hostilities were to ocasc and peace were to be signed to-morrow, Austrin- Hungary would immediately become bankrupt. She might be able to pay & dividend of 11 per cent, to her creditors, but not more. Germany would also be bankrupt, though in her case the dividend Mr. Alan R. Hawley, president of the might be as high as 15 or 16 per cent.
Austria-Hungary needs more American Aero Club, announces that the £20,000,000 in gold every year for the American national aeroplane competition service of the foreign debt alone, and all and rune-continental race has been post the large Austro-Hungarian banks have poned indefinitely, "this," he says, "not heavy gold debts abroad. But, of course, being the time to consider sporting Austrian and German nanciers are buoyed up by the belief that a huge war indemnity will be secured and that the enemy will have to pay for all expenḍi- ture."-Times,
events,"
The danger of aliens, who have been in terned, to return to their former places of residence, has been brought home, to: the authorities in a most convincing man
ner.
A German merchant was, on the personal guarantee of an influential Civil official, released from the intern- ment camp at a well-known Indian port, A few days later, on the rails being look
ENEMY TRADING. ACTION BY JAPAN.
The Shanghai papers are informed from a thoroughly reliable source that the Japanese Government has issued instruc.
The Press also publishes imaginative accounts of the sinking of the 19 and shows in other ways that it has received new instructions,
The
Hamburgher
Nachrichten puts the whole matter in the following sentence
The whole German people is completely satisfied with the submarine war as it has been conducted hitherto, approved the sinking of the Lusitania, and, so far from desiting any initigation of the submarine war, desires still better protection for our submarine heroes against the wiles of English merchuut ships.
In a case of eggs imported from Nor
ed over just after the mail steamer had tions to Japanese shipping companier way. Mr.J. Smith, of Hull, found an left the port, a letter addressed to a whether registored in Japan proper, gentleman in Sweden was discovered Korea, Formosa or the Kaargtung pro-egg on which was written: Respected from the German containing the plans of vince, that all cargo handled by or des- Englishman, Dane sends you friendly the harbour and valnable military and tined for enemy subjects in China shall greetings, and trusts you may conquer in
this horrible war." naval information f
by refused conveyance, as from July 26.
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